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A Temple in Ruins
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Oil paint on Canvas
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78cm x 63cm
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unframed
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£165.00
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Pierre-Antoine Demachy was born in Paris, in 1723 and died there as a professor of classical architecture on September 11th 1807. He reached his fame as a painter at the academy of French Art in 1758. He painted this majestic perspective of (trompe-l’oeil) many times from different angles by allowing the clever use of light and shadow to capture a mood of neglect and destruction.
Rex Marsden added some variations to the people in the foreground on his copy. His scaled down version of this huge Parisian temple is expertly painted on a small canvas 24x30 inches. Sadly, it fails to express the enormity of the original canvas.
Reproduction of Original (Pierre-Antoine Demachy)